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July 25, 2025
By Ezra Toara in Port Vila Vanuatu’s Minister of Climate Change Adaptation, Ralph Regenvanu, has welcomed the historic International Court of Justice (ICJ) climate ruling, calling it a “milestone in the fight for climate justice”. The ICJ has delivered a landmark advisory opinion on states’ obligations under international law to act on climate change. The ... <a title="Historic ICJ climate ruling ‘just the beginning’, says Vanuatu’s Regenvanu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/25/historic-icj-climate-ruling-just-the-beginning-says-vanuatus-regenvanu/" aria-label="Read more about Historic ICJ climate ruling ‘just the beginning’, says Vanuatu’s Regenvanu">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2025
By Jamie Tahana in The Hague for RNZ Pacific The United Nations’ highest court has found that countries can be held legally responsible for their greenhouse gas emissions, in a ruling highly anticipated by Pacific countries long frustrated with the pace of global action to address climate change. In a landmark opinion delivered yesterday in ... <a title="UN’s highest court finds countries can be held legally responsible for emissions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/24/uns-highest-court-finds-countries-can-be-held-legally-responsible-for-emissions/" aria-label="Read more about UN’s highest court finds countries can be held legally responsible for emissions">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2025
By Jamie Tahana in The Hague for RNZ Pacific In 2019, a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific, frustrated at the slow pace with which the world’s governments were moving to address the climate crisis, had an idea — they would take the world’s governments to court. They arranged a ... <a title="ICJ climate crisis ruling: Will world’s top court back Pacific-led call to hold governments accountable?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/23/icj-climate-crisis-ruling-will-worlds-top-court-back-pacific-led-call-to-hold-governments-accountable/" aria-label="Read more about ICJ climate crisis ruling: Will world’s top court back Pacific-led call to hold governments accountable?">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The New Zealand Māori Council and Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa made a high profile appeal to Foreign Minister Winston Peters over Gaza today, calling for urgent action over humanitarian supplies for the besieged Palestinian enclave. “Starving a civilian population is a clear breach of international humanitarian law and a war crime under ... <a title="NZ Māori Council, PSNA appeal for urgent action over Gaza starvation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/08/nz-maori-council-psna-appeal-for-urgent-action-over-gaza-starvation/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Māori Council, PSNA appeal for urgent action over Gaza starvation">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2025
Asia Pacific Report The advocacy group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned the New Zealand government fpr failing to make a humanitarian submission to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings at The Hague this week into Israel blocking vital supplies entering Gaza. The ICJ’s ongoing investigation into Israeli genocide in the besieged enclave is ... <a title="New Zealand condemned for failing to make ICJ humanitarian case over Gaza genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/02/new-zealand-condemned-for-failing-to-make-icj-humanitarian-case-over-gaza-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand condemned for failing to make ICJ humanitarian case over Gaza genocide">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2025
By Anish Chand in Suva Filipo Tarakinikini has been appointed as Fiji’s Ambassador-designate to Israel. This has been stated on two official X, formerly Twitter, handle posts overnight. “#Fiji is determined to deepen its relations with #Israel as Fiji’s Ambassador-designate to Israel, HE Ambassador @AFTarakinikini prepares to present his credentials on 28 April, 2025,” stated ... <a title="Tarakinikini appointed as Fiji’s ambassador-designate to Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/29/tarakinikini-appointed-as-fijis-ambassador-designate-to-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Tarakinikini appointed as Fiji’s ambassador-designate to Israel">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The BBC’s news verification service, Verify, digitally reconstructed a residential tower block in Mandalay earlier this week to show how it had collapsed in a huge earthquake on March 28 in Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia largely cut off from the outside world. The broadcaster painstakingly pieced together damage to ... <a title="The graver Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/07/the-graver-israels-atrocities-in-gaza-the-quieter-the-bbc-grows/" aria-label="Read more about The graver Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Activists in Aotearoa New Zealand marked International Women’s Day today and the start of Ramadan this week with solidarity rallies across the country, calling for justice and peace for Palestinian women and the territories occupied illegally by Israel. The theme this year for IWD is “For all women and girls: Rights. Equality. ... <a title="International Women’s Day activists protest in solidarity with Palestinians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/09/international-womens-day-activists-protest-in-solidarity-with-palestinians/" aria-label="Read more about International Women’s Day activists protest in solidarity with Palestinians">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2025
More than 180 remained in detention without a clear indication of when or if they would be released, the physicians’ report said. “Detainees endure physical, psychological and sexual abuse as well as starvation and medical neglect amounting to torture,” the report said, denouncing a “deeply ingrained policy”. Healthcare workers were beaten, threatened, and forced to ... <a title="Palestine asks ICJ for advisory opinion on illegal occupier Israel’s obligations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/01/palestine-asks-icj-for-advisory-opinion-on-illegal-occupier-israels-obligations/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine asks ICJ for advisory opinion on illegal occupier Israel’s obligations">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2025
Asia Pacific Report UN Special Rapporteur to the Occupied Palestinian Territory Francesca Albanese has hailed the formation of The Hague Group, describing it as the “best news” from a coalition of policymakers “in a long time”. Formed on Friday in the city of its namesake, The Hague Group’s members — Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, ... <a title="UN rapporteur welcomes ‘best news’ — Hague Group coalition pushing for Palestinian state" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/02/un-rapporteur-welcomes-best-news-hague-group-coalition-pushing-for-palestinian-state/" aria-label="Read more about UN rapporteur welcomes ‘best news’ — Hague Group coalition pushing for Palestinian state">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jeremy Rose The International Court of Justice heard last month that after reconstruction is factored in Israel’s war on Gaza will have emitted 52 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. A figure equivalent to the annual emissions of 126 states and territories. It seems somehow wrong to be writing ... <a title="Climate crisis: The carbon footprint of the Gaza genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/23/climate-crisis-the-carbon-footprint-of-the-gaza-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Climate crisis: The carbon footprint of the Gaza genocide">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Cathy Peters To be Jewish does not mean an automatic identification with the rogue state of Israel. Nor does it mean that Jews are automatically threatened by criticism of Israel, yet our media and Labor and Liberal politicians would have you believe this is the case. We are seeing a debate in Australia ... <a title="Weaponising antisemitism – BDS, antisemitism and the silencing of criticism of Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/10/weaponising-antisemitism-bds-antisemitism-and-the-silencing-of-criticism-of-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Weaponising antisemitism – BDS, antisemitism and the silencing of criticism of Israel">Read more</a>
